Autumn Quotes

• "What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!"
  By: James Russell Lowell, An Indian Summer Reverie
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• "It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Pegasus in Pound
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• "Behold congenial Autumn comes, The Sabbath of the year!"
  By: John Logan
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• "To her bier comes the year, not with weeping and distress, as mortals do; but to guide her way to it, all the trees have torches lit."
  By: Lucy Larcom
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• "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core."
  By: John Keats (1), To Autumn
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• "Autumn is the harvest of greedy death."
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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• "The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit."
  By: Helen Hunt (Helen Hunt Jackson)
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• "I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;-- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn."
  By: Thomas Hood, Ode--Autumn
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• "The year's in the wane, There is nothing adorning, The night has no eve, And the day has no morning;-- Cold winter gives warning."
  By: Thomas Hood, Autumn
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• "The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;-- Old age, begin sighing!"
  By: Thomas Hood, Autumn
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• "Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves."
  By: Thomas Hood
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• "The summer's throbbing chant is done And mute the choral antiphon; The birds have left the shivering pines To flit among the trellised vines, Or fan the air with scented plumes Amid the love-sick orange blooms, And thou art here alone--alone-- Sing, little bird! the rest have flown."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• "Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries "Autumn once more begins today"-- 'Tis written all across the trees In yellow like Chinese."
  By: Richard Le Gallienne, The Eternal Play
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• "When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear."
  By: John Dryden
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• "As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors."
  By: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
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• "How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!"
  By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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